Harvester



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HARVESTER.

No. 322,229. Patented July 14, 1885.

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HARVESTER.

No. 322.229. Patented mm1-4.1885.

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UNITED STATES` PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM N. WIII'IELEY AND WILLIAM BAYLEY, OF SPRINGFIELD, OHIO.

HARVESTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.322,2 29, dated July 14, 1885.

Application filed Ju To ci/ZZ whom it may concern,.-

Be it known that we, WILLIAM N. WHITE- LEY and WILLIAM BAYLEY, of Springeld, in Clark county, in the State of Ohio, have invented new and useful Improvements in Harvesters; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full and accurate description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, wherein- .Figure 1 is a plan view of our m. bine. Fig. 2 1s a perspective view of the ope tive mechanism divested of its supporting-frame.

This invention relates to means for driving the sickle of the cutting apparatus from the pinionshaft driven by the main wheel, the binding apparatus being also driven from the same pinion-shaft; and it consists in a counter-shaft having at one end a pinion in mesh with the driving-pinion on said pinion-shaft, and at the other end a crank, and a rock-shaft at one end connected with and oscillated by said crank, and at the other end connected with the sickle by a pitman, whereby motion is transmitted from the pinion-shaft forward toward the front of the frame and then backward by Way of the rock-shaft to the sickle.

rIhe main frame t2 surrounds and is supported by the main wheel VA. Said wheel is provided with an internal gear-ring, b, which meshes with and drives the pinion g on the pinion-shaft g2. Said pinionshaft alsobears the bevel-gear y', which on one side drives the pinion 2 and on the other the pinion e. The former transmits power to the binding mechanism, and the latter transmits power to the sickle. Y d

The mechanism whereby the binding` apparatus is driven does not form a part of this invention, and for that reason does not require I any further description herein.

The pinion a is at one end of a short crankshaft, zl, upon the opposite end of which there is a crank, b2, and this is connected by a rod, y

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is laid in boxes above the plane of the pinionshaft g2, and extends backward over the inner side bar of the frame t2 to the rear end of the main frame, when the crank-arm f2, which is a part of or is attached to said rock-shaftf, so as to oscillate with it, descends to the plane of the sickle, and is there connected to the `heel of the cutter-bar by means of the pitman g3. By these `means the revolution of the crank-shaft a2 causes the rocking or oscillation of the rock-shaft f, whereby motion is transmitted front the same pinion-shaft to both binder and cutter without interference.

Having described our invention, what we elaimas new is l. In a rear-cut harvesting-machine, the sickle-actuating mechanism consisting of a main wheel and a main frame surrounding and mounted thereon, a pinion, g, bevel-geary, crank-wheel b2, pitman c?, rocking crank-shaft f, provided with cranks 62]", and pitman g3, all located on the frame at the inner side of the Wheel, as and for the purpose set forth. i

2. The combination, with a main frame surrounding and supported by a main` wheel, of a pinion-shaft, g2, supported by said main frame, actuated by said main wheel, and provided with a bevel-wheel, y', at its outer end, a counter-shaft, z2, actuated by said bevelwheel and provided with the crank-Wheel?)2 at the front end of said frame, the rock-shaft f, having the cranks c2 f2 at each end, respectively, the connecting-rod c2, and pitman q", whereby motion may be transmitted forward from the driving-wheel and then backward at the sameside of said driving-wheel, for the 8o purpose set forth. WILLIAM N. WHITELEY.

VILLIAM BAYLEY.

F. B. FURNIss, SOL J. Houck.

o2, with the arm e2 of the rock-shaft f, which y 

